Who knows about evil in the world?

I've just finished watching "Ghandhi"-again, Turner Classics Movies channel.

I've seen the movie many times and although I am always affected by this man of peace, it seems the further I am along my walk with Christ, the more I take from this man. It seems to me that although he was Hindu, he had a far better understanding of Christ than I do myself, a professed and confessing Christian.

Toward the end of the movie, a young Hindu father tries to convince Ghandhi to stop his fast (which was initiated to bring the religions of India together and stop the violence that had been going on amongst the religions). The young father offers bread to Ghandhi and says that he knows he is going to hell but does not want Ghandhi's blood on his hands. Ghandhi asks the young father why he is going to hell. The father tells Ghandhi that he killed a Muslim boy by dashing the boy's brains out against a wall because a Muslim had killed his own young son. Ghandhi listens to the young father and then tells him that he, Ghandhi, knows the way out of hell. The young father, grief-striken and horrified at his own actions, asks Ghandhi how to get out of going to hell.

Ghandhi tells the young father to find a boy the size and age of the son that was killed and whose parents have been killed because of the violence and raise him as his own. Then Ghandhi says, "But make sure that the boy is Muslim...and that you raise him as one."

Jesus said, "Take up your cross and follow Me". How many of us can do that? Jesus said, "Go, and sin no more". How many of us even try? Take an orphaned child of your enemy and raise him in the knowledge of his people. We post 9/11 people shrink in horror at that thought and yet...isn't that what we're called to do? Aren't Christians to lead the way in tolerance, understanding and love because we have as a role model the Perfect picture of such tolerance, understanding, and love?

In the end, it was a Muslim man that shot and killed Ghandhi. Ghandhi's last words were, "God...God..." not pleading for his own life but pleading for peace in his land.

Evil walks the earth and draws to itself those who have lost their way; those who find their own agendas to be more important than anything else in the world; those whose lives are so empty and barren that they are easily picked up by the winds of damnation and carried to the gates of hell.

Pray for peace everywhere. Pray for the light of Christ to enter the hearts of all men everywhere. Pray that Christ's gospel of the Kingdom of God reaches every dark and lonely place harboring a withering soul.